Quotes About Reading

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

You can never read too many books, any kind.

I get pretty opinionated about books.

Why would you apologize for what you read for pleasure? Just think of the illiteracy rate. Every book read for pleasure should be celebrated. And novels that celebrate love, commitment, relationships, making relationships work, why isn't that something to be respected?

She read in her room by the light of an oil lamp until mind and body gave way to fatigue.

She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.

Women curl up with books, guys stretch out

anything worth anything can be found in books

He never had a first read on the nightstand, not if he wanted to sleep, so he settled in with the familiar and fascinating

It was at 'The Little Lodge' I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced … Mrs Everest produced a book called Reading without Tears. It certainly did not justify its title in my case … [When] the Governess was due to arrive, I did what so many oppressed peoples have done in similar circumstances: I took to the woods. I

In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

I have a colleague who feels anyone over the age of twenty-one caught reading a Harry Potter novel should be executed without trial, but that strikes me as unreasonable; the fact that they're written for British thirteen-year-olds probably means they're the right speed for 90 percent of American adults.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

Leggere non è un passatempo da comitiva. Non è come andare a vedere un film o assistere a un concerto. È il margine più solitario dello spettro.

Here was reading as a covert act of revolution carried out in plain sight but recognized as such only by other men with the book.

Uma casa sem livros é como um corpo sem alma

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

The number of words spoken to a child had a strong correlation between the number of words that they heard in their first thirty months and their performance on vocabulary and reading comprehension tests as they got older.

for a Christmas present. They read it just after they had hung up their stockings before one of the big fireplaces in their house. Afterward, they learned it

Read with joy!

And nobody has ever gotten emotional over a James Patterson novel.

But if he didn't read, he was a slave.